CFUW-Ottawa Speakers' Series & General Meetings

2025-2026

Meetings are held at Riverside United Church, 3191 Riverside Drive (unless otherwise indicated)

and/or on ZOOM 

Club Business Meeting Follows

2025

7:00 pm, Monday, September 22nd - Season Opener - Mosaic Convention Centre at 2465 St. Laurent Blvd.

7:00 pm, Monday, October 6th (Hybrid)  - Catherine Smith, Paleoanthropologist, Past President of CFUW-Ottawa

Topic: Much Depends Upon Dinner: How Diet Shaped Our Evolutionary History

7:00 pm, Monday, November 3rd (Hybrid) - Dr. Myra J. Hird, Full Professor, School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University

Topic: Microplastics

2026

7:00 pm, Monday, January 5th (Zoom) – Speaker TBD

Topic: TBD

7:00 pm, Monday, February 2nd (Zoom) – Karen Squires and Stan Cook (tentatively both speakers)

Topic: Sustainable, Responsible Tourism

7:00 pm, Monday, April 6th (Zoom) – Christine Rollo, CFUW Member

Topic: Mary River Hamilton, Canada’s forgotten War Artist

7:00 pm, Monday, May 4th (Hybrid) – Dr. Ruth Slack, Director, University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI), Professor, Faculty of Medicine 

&

Dr. Katey Rayner, Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President of Research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute

Topic: Brain-Heart Interconnectome(BHI), Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa

7:00 pm, Monday, June 1 (in-person only) - CFUW-Ottawa Annual General Meeting